Beatrice Angle
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Beatrice Angle (1859–1915) was a British sculptor who worked in terracotta and bronze.
Biography
Angle was born in Hornsey in north London but grew up in neighbouring Islington, one of the eleven children of Susan and John Angle, a job master.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}} Angle specialised in terracotta and bronze busts and heads, but on occasion also produced porcelian pieces and more imaginative designs.{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn=}} At the Paris Salon of 1892 she showed a statuette entitled The Young Venitian.{{cite book|author=|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini|isbn=2-7000-3070-2}} Angle exhibited pieces at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in London, showing some 16 works at the Royal Academy between 1885 and 1899 and two pieces at the Society of Women Artists in 1890.{{cite web |author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1250563478 |title=Miss Beatrice Angle |year=2011|accessdate=10 January 2020|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951}} For some time Angle maintained a studio at Yeoman's Row in Kensington but later lived at Sandwich in Kent.
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Category:19th-century English women artists
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:Artists from the London Borough of Haringey
Category:Artists from the London Borough of Islington